variants
also focussing
variants
also focussing
as in concentrating
to fix (as one's attention) steadily toward a central objective
try to focus your attention on the task at hand
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Recent Examples of focusing
Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026
Officials are focusing on protecting the environment, as crews have teams measuring the extent of the flows and working with collaborating agencies, Katon said.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
The present market valuation exhibits significant pessimism, accounting for worst-case scenarios and intensely focusing on weaknesses in the DIY tax arena, while also addressing broader concerns of AI disruption in fundamental bookkeeping tasks.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
In the original treatment, Sidney Poitier would do narration, commenting on the events, and there would be additional interviews, focusing on how the Renaissance impacted the present day.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
The Swiss high watchmaker is offering visitors an inside look into its nearly two centuries of craftsmanship and design, specifically focusing on its Reverso style, which was first introduced more than 90 years ago.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
These morality tales, focusing on figures like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, make an implicit claim that individual avarice somehow explains the excesses of an entire era.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Attempts to quantify the impact by focusing on in-season managerial changes seem to indicate that the effect is minimal to negligible.
—Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
For most people, experts say focusing on a varied, fiber-rich diet is likely more beneficial than relying on supplements alone.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
Verb
Now, the space agency is focusing on the next big step for its Artemis program—proving the viability of the technologies that will land astronauts back on the Moon.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 22 May 2026
Officials are focusing on protecting the environment, as crews have teams measuring the extent of the flows and working with collaborating agencies, Katon said.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
The present market valuation exhibits significant pessimism, accounting for worst-case scenarios and intensely focusing on weaknesses in the DIY tax arena, while also addressing broader concerns of AI disruption in fundamental bookkeeping tasks.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
In the original treatment, Sidney Poitier would do narration, commenting on the events, and there would be additional interviews, focusing on how the Renaissance impacted the present day.
—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 22 May 2026
The Swiss high watchmaker is offering visitors an inside look into its nearly two centuries of craftsmanship and design, specifically focusing on its Reverso style, which was first introduced more than 90 years ago.
—Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 22 May 2026
These morality tales, focusing on figures like Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, make an implicit claim that individual avarice somehow explains the excesses of an entire era.
—Literary Hub, 15 May 2026
Attempts to quantify the impact by focusing on in-season managerial changes seem to indicate that the effect is minimal to negligible.
—Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
For most people, experts say focusing on a varied, fiber-rich diet is likely more beneficial than relying on supplements alone.
—Ryan Brennan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for focusing
Adjective
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The technology has strong optical absorption and long carrier diffusion lengths.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
22 May 2026
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Those vibrant, almost optical-illusion-like chevrons and patterns that Missoni is known for come from their innovative approach to weaving techniques, adapting and optimizing the Caperdoni loom and Raschel knitting in order to weave over 200 colors into one textile.—
Rosie Jarman,
Vogue,
22 May 2026
Verb
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But leaving out the cryogenic class and concentrating on more day-to-day rocket, missile, and aviation fuels, there's still a lot of room for improvement.—
David Szondy
May 17,
New Atlas,
17 May 2026
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One of the biggest mistakes individual investors make is concentrating too much capital into one emotional idea without understanding downside exposure.—
Robert Daugherty,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
Adjective
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Hetzel was diagnosed with NF and an optic glioma that impacts her vision.—
Wakisha Bailey,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Bring Alaïa’s soft sage skirt into sharp focus with the addition of monochromatic extras—a sculptural black top and optic white heels.—
Christina Holevas,
Vogue,
25 Apr. 2026
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Pomona native and Cal Poly grad who flew Navy F-18s successfully launches as pilot of NASA’s riveting Artemis II mission around the moon, the first such voyage since the Apollo program in 1972.—
Bay Area News Group,
Mercury News,
5 Apr. 2026
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Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone wondering how to make each hour in their workday riveting for television viewers.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Funded through donations and the sale of inspirational cards containing McCrary’s artwork, her nonprofit has in the last three years paid for 2,000 trips for more than 200 ocular melanoma patients to receive life-sustaining treatments similar to what saved her.—
Johnny Dodd,
PEOPLE,
9 May 2026
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Its water requirement is negligible, and its wedding gown, white blooms against a backdrop of deep green foliage, is an ocular delight.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
8 May 2026
Adjective
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The scene used one of the film’s funniest visual gags, an apartment so crazily tilted that nobody inside it could stand up straight.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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This approach preserves the visual identity of the original compact robot while adapting it to a far more demanding mechanical scale.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
17 May 2026
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“Focusing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/focusing. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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